I am interested in freezing time, more or less, until the hordes show up. Europe has more or less stabilized and over the past 50 years and nothing has changed. I'd like to just jump to the hordes instead of watching the map not change for 100+ years.

The problem doing that is that it doesnt give the counties time to tech up. The tech could save your ♥♥♥. Such as miltary org which will give you a personal amry higher the rank more troops you get. Better equiped counties with more levies the more retuines you can get to stop the horde.